1912 – Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Gustaf Dalén for inventing automatic regulators for gas accumulators for lighthouses and buoys
1914 – French government returns to Paris
1919 – NY, Boston, and Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
1931 – Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1952 – Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1984 – South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is presented with his Nobel Peace Prize
1992 – NHL awards franchises to Miami and Anaheim for 1994-95
1994 – Nobel Peace Prize presented to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat
1995 – Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9″ in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3″ in 1982
2016 – Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony he does not attend in Stockholm